Part 1043

<hw>Bend"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, bends.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An instrument used for bending.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A drunken spree.</def> <mark>[Low, U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A sixpence.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Bending</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Bend"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Bendlet</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Bend"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Bend</ets> + <ets>-let</ets>: cf. E. <ets>bandlet</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.</def>

<h1>Bendwise</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Bend"wise</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Diagonally.</def>

<h1>Bendy</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Ben"dy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bend</er> a band.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.</def>

<i>Cussans.</i>

<h1>Bene</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Ben"e</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See <er>Benne</er>.</def>

<h1>Bene</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Be"ne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>b<?/n</ets>.]</ety> <def>A prayer; boon.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>What is good for a bootless <b>bene</b> ? <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bene, Ben</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw><hw>Bene</hw>, <hw>Ben</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (<spn>Porcula papuensis</spn>).</def>

<h1>Beneaped</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Be*neaped"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>See <er>Neaped</er>.</def>

<h1>Beneath</h1> <Xpage=136>

<hw>Be*neath"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>benethe</ets>, <ets>bineo<?/en</ets>, AS. <ets>beneo<?/an</ets>, <ets>beny<?/an</ets>; pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>neo<?/an</ets>, <ets>ny<?/an</ets>, downward, beneath, akin to E. <ets>nether</ets>. See <er>Nether</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.</def> "<i>Beneath</i> the mount."

<i>Ex. xxxii. 19.</i>

<blockquote><b>Beneath</b> a rude and nameless stone he lies. <i> Pope.</i></blockquote>